Richard Pryor’s funeral was ‘a travesty of a mockery of a sham,’ according to his daughter.
‘If Ikea did funerals,’ she said, ‘this would be it. Cold and sterile and monstrously hollow.’
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor has spent the 20 years since the mercurial, ground-breaking comedian’s death trying to make sense of their complicated relationship.
Now she has opened up about what it was really like living with her famous, often intoxicated parent, the revolving door of wives, girlfriends, and prostitutes and the truth about what happened when her father famously set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine.
In her new memoir, Something We Said, she also
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